inefficiency
inefficiency noun: lack of efficiency or effectiveness.
Noun
inefficiency (countable and uncountable, plural inefficiencies)
- Lack of efficiency or effectiveness.
- Yet only 21 percent of adult TANF recipients are working today, largely because of these inefficiencies and loopholes.2024 September 23, Sam Adolphsen, Paige Terryberry, “WITH REFORM, TANF CAN LIFT AMERICAN FAMILIES OUT OF DEPENDENCY”, in Foundation for Government Accountability, page 5
- “An organization’s reputational integrity is its greatest currency. When you compromise that, you have lost the loyalty and trust of your employees,” Wahler said. “His approach is going to increase inefficiency by creating an environment marked by instability, a lack of trust and divisiveness.”2025 February 27, Jeanne Sahadi, “DOGE’s heavy-handed approach is not likely to make the government more efficient”, in CNN
inefficiency meaning in Tamil and Urdu
inefficiency in Tamil
- திறமையின்மை, திறனின்மை
inefficiency in Urdu
- بےتاثیری, کمزوری, نالائقی
Examples of inefficiency in a sentence
- The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid.
- I will scrub the inefficiencies out of the system.
- The cyclegraph first created the problem of inefficiency by recording it and making it visible.
Forms of inefficiency
| plural | inefficiencies |
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Origin of inefficiency
From in- + efficiency.
Questions about inefficiency
- What does inefficiency mean?
- Inefficiency means lack of efficiency or effectiveness.
- What is inefficiency in Tamil?
- Inefficiency in Tamil is திறமையின்மை, திறனின்மை. See Inefficiency meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is inefficiency?
- Inefficiency is a noun.
- What is the plural of inefficiency?
- The plural of inefficiency is inefficiencies.
Words near inefficiency in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: inefficiency (page history and authors); inefficiency (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inefficiency (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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